Joseph Bamberger and Ernestine Stern (also known as Emma) got married in 1905. They lived in Munich where Joseph ran a kosher butcher shop. In 1937 (or 1939) the couple fled to the Netherlands. They settled in Scheveningen where one of their two children was already living.
In 1940 all non-Dutch Jews were ordered by the Nazis to move away from the coastal cities. The family chose Utrecht, which i…